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Issues for Our Time

Was the Constitution Pro-slavery?

Frederick Douglass on the Constitution and Slavery
The Anti-Slavery Constitution (National Review)
Vindicating the Founders: Slavery

Social Justice and Equality under the Constitution

"All Men are Created Equal: America's Defining Creed"
Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Constitution and Justice
Martin Luther King, Jr. and American Founding Principles

Why did the Constitution not include Women's Right to Vote?

Vindicating the Founders: Women's Suffrage
Constitutional Silence on the Women's Right to Vote (NY Times Opinion)

Immigration and Citizenship in the United States

An illustration of immigrants on the steerage deck of an ocean steamer passing the Statue of Liberty from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, July 2, 1887.

Do Illegal Aliens have rights under the Constitution?
Vindicating the Founders: Immigration and the Moral Conditions of Citizenship
Immigration and the Founders: Source Documents

What is the Relationship between Federal and State Laws?

Federalism 101
The Federalist, Human Nature and Forms of Government 
Essay: Obstruction of the Laws

How do the Principles of the Declaration of Independence Apply to Us Today?

The Basic Principles of the Declaration of Independence
Calvin Coolidge: The Inspiration of the Declaration
The Basics of American Democracy (Professor Danielle Allen of Harvard)

Thomas Jefferson, Slavery and Sally Hemings

Monticello: Jefferson and Slavery
Essay on Thomas Jefferson and Slavery (Richard Dixon)
Research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation vs. Thomas Jefferson (M. Andrew Holowchak)
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